Sins of the Fathers is set in the small Wisconsin town of Superior, where the 50 year old homicide of Thomas Baker haunts a local reporter, Rita Sullivan. Aware of the anniversary of the Baker Boy’s death, Rita publishes a re-cap of the homicide and investigation in the local newspaper. To her horror another young boy is killed one day later. Fifteen-year-old Sean Nolan is found floating in the muddy water of the Nemadji river. Nolan, too, was last seen outside the Immaculate Heart rectory. The old story seems to play itself over again when, with few clue and even fewer suspects, the case is in danger of going cold. Divorced with no children, and caught in a relationship limbo with no foreseeable future other than a quick end to her career, Rita’s life is full of loose ends she’d rather seen tied in neat bows. Her grandfather “Pops” couldn’t agree more. That is, until Rita starts asking questions about the cold case that Pops failed to solve. Pops was a police officer with the Superior Department for more than ten years, one of its finest. He worked his way from beat cop to desk sergeant before the Baker Case tarnished his badge. One year later he resigned. Now it seems that Pops would just as soon forget the whole thing ever happened. “It’s been fifty years since the Baker boy was killed,” he tells her over breakfast, irritated at her persistent interest in the old case. “It’s never going to be solved; why keep rehashing it? Killers just get lucky sometimes–there isn’t enough evidence, no clear trail left behind.” But, despite her grandfather’s protests, Rita cannot just let it go, as Pops repeatedly asks her. The new case now turns what had been simple reporter’s curiosity into an obsession. Convinced that closing the case left open by her Pops will somehow redeem him, Rita turns her reporter’s instincts loose on the church. She goes in prepared to unearth a new story of another pedophile priest. Instead, she finds herself peeling back the murky layers of decades-old deceit, and rattling the bones of her own family’s dysfunction.